This Canadian worked for a Canadian company contracted to
build five, fully populated, 44 RU racks for an installation on the Strip in the heart of Las Vegas.
Tussauds in England paid my boss to supply, pre-wire, ship, and supervise the on site installation; two of us were there for a few days longer than four months to install, program and test "On other people's money" as the phrase goes.
The two of us were put up in separate rooms in an all suites hotel with a fridge in every room, our 24/7 buffet breakfast included, and a row of taxis out front waiting to ferry us down town once or twice daily "On other people's Money.
A 20 hour per day brew pub was immediately next to our front door where we purchased our own dinners EVERY evening seven days per week for a few days more than four months.
Never having seen the installation skills of our local
IBEW crew, we packed more than fifty each of
Neutrik Male and Female XLR-three's, fours, fives and sixes. We only needed to install ONE
XLR 7 pin Male on site; we packed one + one spare.
You don't want to view the artful remnants of the first
connector one of our best local crew "created" soldering free
hand atop a personnelle lift using an
iron better suited for sweating together 10' lengths of 1970's galvanized metal eaves trough.
To the gentleman's credit, he definitely gave it his best for approximately two hours. When finished The
connector's pins were neither parallel nor of a similar length. It got "interesting" when I threw a 7 contact Female up to him to try mating it,
The gentleman could terminate Twistlocks from 2 contacts to 5 / 15 amps to 30 but
Neutrik 7's were not in his skill set.
During his coffee break he decided this was an impossible task and agreed to my riding a
scissor lift, with him along to observe, and prove before his own eyes that terminating 6 or 7 conductors of foil shielded 22
gauge stranded could actually be accomplished sans creating a mound of smoldering plastic with seven tiny pins stuck in at jaunty angles.
Live and learn and preferably on "Other people's money".
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard